TATTOO ^_^
Feb. 20th, 2009 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flyboy_foxIt is done! I have a lower back tattoo. Behold!
The pic doesn't do it justice :( Kinda hard to photograph a tattoo on my own back. In reality, the colour of the tails is far less green. It's actually a lovely yellow/orange. And my skin is not jaundiced. Pic quality is naff too; shoulda waited for Jei to get back so she could take a better one, but I was too impatient. So there it is o.o
It sounds odd coming from fraidy-cat li'l old me, but I really wasn't nervous at all going there. I guess just 'cause I wanted it so much. The actual process was... difficult but bearable. The black ink outline was easily the least painful part. It stung slightly, but it didn't feel much worse than deep fingernail scratching. The preliminary shading stung a fair bit more, but still wasn't terrible. But the final color was pretty painful. I mean, gritting my teeth and digging my nails into my arm while chanting "oww oww oww" internally painful. But even so, it was tolerable. There wasn't any point during the process where I felt the need to pull away or ask her to stop. In total, it took about 2 hours? I have to take care of it for a week or so, naturally, with cream and stuff... and she said that it will probably start to itch around day 5. But would I do it again if I felt drawn to having another one done? Definitely.
The pic doesn't do it justice :( Kinda hard to photograph a tattoo on my own back. In reality, the colour of the tails is far less green. It's actually a lovely yellow/orange. And my skin is not jaundiced. Pic quality is naff too; shoulda waited for Jei to get back so she could take a better one, but I was too impatient. So there it is o.o
It sounds odd coming from fraidy-cat li'l old me, but I really wasn't nervous at all going there. I guess just 'cause I wanted it so much. The actual process was... difficult but bearable. The black ink outline was easily the least painful part. It stung slightly, but it didn't feel much worse than deep fingernail scratching. The preliminary shading stung a fair bit more, but still wasn't terrible. But the final color was pretty painful. I mean, gritting my teeth and digging my nails into my arm while chanting "oww oww oww" internally painful. But even so, it was tolerable. There wasn't any point during the process where I felt the need to pull away or ask her to stop. In total, it took about 2 hours? I have to take care of it for a week or so, naturally, with cream and stuff... and she said that it will probably start to itch around day 5. But would I do it again if I felt drawn to having another one done? Definitely.
